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Clark, Penney, THEN|HiER Director

Professor, University of British Columbia

Clark, Penney, THEN|HiER Director

Penney Clark is Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy, Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia. Her research interests include history teaching and learning and curriculum in historical and political contexts. Her publications include articles in History of Education Quarterly, the Journal of Canadian Studies, the Canadian Journal of Education, the American Journal of Education, the McGill Journal of Education, Theory and Research in Social Education and Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada. She was a contributor to the History of the Book in Canada project, volumes Two and Three. She is currently conducting research on textbook production and provision in Ontario and British Columbia, 1846 to 2005, funded by a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Standard Research Grant. She was also the 2006 recipient of the Marie Tremaine Fellowship from the Bibliographical Society of Canada. Other research projects include a History of the UBC Child Study Centre, 1961-1997; a case study of Canadian history textbooks and their changing portrayals of Canada’s Aboriginal people over time for the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs’ History Education and Reconciliation Project; and a study of the potential for the development of historical empathy in the CBC/Radio-Canada video series, Canada: A People’s History.

Dr. Clark was awarded the Killam Faculty Teaching Prize in 2006 for her instruction in both teacher education and graduate courses. She received the BC Social Studies Teachers’ Association Innovator of the Year Award in 2008. Her three co-authored Canadian history textbooks are used widely. She is also co-editor, with Roland Case, of the Anthology of Social Studies: Issues and Strategies for Elementary Teachers (2008) and the Anthology of Social Studies: Issues and Strategies for Secondary Teachers (2008) which are used in teacher education programs across the country.
 
Penney Clark was the principal applicant on the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Strategic Knowledge Clusters Grant that provides the funding for THEN/HiER.
 
For a list of publications and additional information, see: http://edcp.educ.ubc.ca/faculty/penney-clark
 

Publications Since 2007

With Louis LeVasseur. « Deux points de vue sur l’enseignement de l’histoire au Canada ». Revue internationale d’éducation 69 (Fall 2015): 123-33.

"What Brings Us to our Research and What Sustains Us?" THEN/HiER e-Bulletin 71 (July 2015): 3, 6. www.thenhier.ca/en/content/thenhier-publications.

With Stéphane Lévesque and Ruth Sandwell. “Dialogue Across Chasms: History and History Education in Canada.” In History Teacher Education: Global Interrelations, edited by Elisabeth Erdmann and W. Hasberg, 191-211. History Education International Series, Schwalbach/Ts: Wochenschau Verlag, 2015.

“History Education Research in Canada:  A Late Bloomer.” In Researching History Education: International Perspectives and Disciplinary Traditions, edited by Manuel Köster, Holger Thünemann, and Meik Zülsdorf-Kersting, 81-103. Schwalbach/Ts.: Wochenschau Verlag, 2014.

With Alan Sears. "Historical Frictions: History, Art, and Pedagogy." Canadian Issues/Thèmes canadians (Fall, 2014): 18-23.

"'The Teacher Is the Keystone of the Educational Arch': A Century and a Half of Lifelong Teacher Education in Canada." In Becoming a History Teacher: Sustaining Practices in Historical Thinking and Knowing, edited by Ruth Sandwell and Amy von Heyking, 30-59. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014.

With Wayne Knights. "'Fratricidal Warfare:' English-Canadian Textbook Publishers Take on the Americans, 1970-1980." History of Education: Journal of the History of Education Society 42 (5) (2013): 598-621. 
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0046760X.2013.834523

“History of Education and Passages to the Future.” In Foundations in Teacher Education: A Canadian Perspective, edited by Theodore Christou and Shawn Bulloch, 30-45. Polygraph 3. Canadian Research in Teacher Education: A Polygraph Series. Ottawa: Canadian Association for Teacher Education, 2013. https://sites.google.com/site/cssecate/polygraph-book-series

"‘A Precarious Enterprise’: A Case Study of Western Canadian Regional Educational Publishing, 1980-1989.” Historical Studies in Education, 25(1) (Spring 2013): 1-29. See: historicalstudiesineducation.ca/index.php/edu_hse-rhe.

"Clio in the Curriculum: Vindicated at Last." Canadian Issues/Themes Canadians (Summer, 2013): 42-6.

Edited with Roland Case. The Anthology of Social Studies: Issues and Strategies for Elementary Teachers, updated edition. Vancouver: Pacific Educational Press, 2013.

With Mona Gleason and Stephen Petrina.  "Preschools for Science? The Child Study Centre at the University of British Columbia, 1960-1997." History of Education Quarterly, 52(1) (2012): 29-61. 

With Wayne Knights. "‘Gringo operations’: Nationalism and Capital in Canadian Educational Publishing, 1970-1981." Journal of Canadian Studies 45(2) (2011): 123-61.

Guest editor. British Columbia History: Journal of the British Columbia Historical Federation 44(1) (2011). (Theme issue on education.)

“Editor’s Note.” British Columbia History: Journal of the British Columbia Historical Federation 44(1) (2011): 3.

Editor. New Possibilities for the Past: Shaping History Education in Canada. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2011.

“Introduction.” In New Possibilities for the Past: Shaping History Education in Canada, edited by Penney Clark, 1-30. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2011.

With Peter Seixas. "Obsolete Icons and the Teaching of History." In New Possibilities for the Past: Shaping History Education in Canada, edited by Penney Clark, 282-301. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2011. (This is a revised and abbreviated version of “Murals as Monuments,” published in the American Journal of Education, 2004.)

“Textbooks: More than a Pedagogical Tool.” THEN/HiER e-Bulletin 20 (April 2011): 3. www.thenhier.ca/en/content/thenhier-publications 

"Review." Leslie Howsam. Past into Print: The Publishing of History in Britain, 1850-1950. Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada, 48(1) (2010): 221-24.

With Yesman Post."'A Natural Outcome of Free Schools': The Free Text-Book Branch in British Columbia, 1908-1949." Historical Studies in Education, 21(2) (2009): 23-45.

"'Great Chorus of Protest.' The Ontario Booksellers' Response to the 1909 Eaton's Readers." History of Education 38(5) (2009): 681-703.

"‘The Most Fundamental of All Learning Tools’: An Historical Investigation of Textbook Controversies in English Canada." In Auf der Suche nach der wahren Art von Textbüchern 9, edited by Marc Depaepe and Angelo Van Gorp, 123-42. Bad Heilbrunn: Klinkhardt. (Beiträge zur historischen und systematischen Schulbuchforschung, 7), 2009.

"Bringing Diverse Groups Together to Enrich History Education." Canadian Diversity/Diversité canadienne 7(1) (2009): 69-72.

"'Reckless Extravagance and Utter Incompetence:' George Ross and the Toronto Textbook Ring, 1883-1907." Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada 46(2) (2008): 185-235.

Edited with Roland Case. The Anthology of Social Studies: Issues and Strategies for Elementary Teachers. Vancouver BC: Pacific Educational Press, 2008.

Edited with Roland Case. The Anthology of Social Studies: Issues and Strategies for Secondary Teachers. Vancouver BC: Pacific Educational Press, 2008.

"The Rise and Fall of Textbook Publishing in English Canada." In History of the Book in Canada, 1918-1980 Vol. III, edited by C. Gerson and J. Michon, 226-32, 538-39. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007. French version:  "Essor et decline de l’édition scolaire au Canada anglais." In Histoire du livre et de l’imprimé au Canada, Vol. III, edited by C. Gerson and J. Michon, 240-46. Montréal: Les presses de l’université de Montreal, 2007.

"Representations of Aboriginal Peoples in English Canadian History Textbooks: Toward Reconciliation." In Teaching the Violent Past: History Education and Reconciliation, edited by Elizabeth A. Cole, 81-120. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield and Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, 2007.

With Michael Cromer. "Getting Graphic with the Past: Graphic Novels and the Teaching of History." Theory and Research in Social Education 35(4): 574-91, 2007.